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The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.

Powers, Richard, 1957- (author.).

Summary:

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers--each summoned in different ways by trees--are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393635522
ISBN: 039363552X
Physical Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Roots. Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
Awards Note:	Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist, 2019. NPR Best Books, 2018. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019. Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, 2019.